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Fun with the Beijing Olympic 2008

Tushar Neupaney — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:14:37 +0000

With the exotic opening of the grand olympic festiva in beijing, china; china might have come somewhat closer to liberalization.

The Opening Ceremony

The chinese had prepared for this event since long. The sexy young girls were not left behind. The training was tough.

Chinese Girls with Books - Top View

What not they did.

Balancing Books between legs

They even shutdown the industries around beijing for 3 weeks to clean up the air. My god what was the situation before…

Shutdown in Beijing 2008

And the catoonist thought about the new chinese olympic gear would be like this:

The gadget en olympica

They started with jill and joy. The olympic fame in their heart.

The flame of piece with

People made fun of them.

The tianmein reborn

They made fun of others.

Chinese making joke of America

No one knew who thought of the beijing logo first, but it was rediculous.

The Beijing infamous logo-1

The making of olympic logo 2

The making of olympic logo 3

The making of Olympic Logo 4

And the Tibet thingy.

The China and The Tibet

But they enjoy what they are doing and we love it too. Great goin china

Joy ride in Downtown Beijing

Desktop Wallpapers For XP, Vista, MacOS, Linux

Tushar Neupaney — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:19:54 +0000

Mostly people don’t use the default bliss wallpaper that comes with XP and the grass of vista. They like a change. Internet has lot more resources that help you with all these. I will like to brief you on some of the best wallpaper resources in Internet.

There are some websites dedicated to wallpapers and they are really great. But some blogging sites too host wallpapers. They collect them from different sources and are the best hand picked selection. I hope to provide you an insight into it.

1. honkiat dot com: Honkiat is a source of wonderful wallpapers and blogging utility. You will find nice articles, informations, rss and lot more and also some wonderful piece of wallpapers.

Source: honkiat.com

2. interfacelift dot com: Interfacelift is another useful site which hosts wonderful wallpapers. They work for all OSes and is great for your desktop.

Source: InterfaceLIFT

3. gnome-look dot org: Gnome look is a free website with lots of resources. From Icons to Linux themes, Metacity, Nautilus, XMMS and other themes. This website also has a wonderful resource of wallpapers donated by numerous volunteers. Have a look at this site too.

source: gnome-look

4. Social Wallpapering: Social Wallpapering is another great side to visit. You can find a good collection of wallpapers here for your choice. The url is socwall dot com.

Source: socwall

5. Smashing Magazine Monthly Calendar: Smashing Magazine is a great graphical site with lots of blog and graphical utility. It launches new list of wallpapers every month with exotic and fine tuned wallpaper collection you will love to download.

Source: Smashing Magazine

6. PixelgirlPresents dot com: pixelgirlpresents dot com collects wallpapers from different users and post them in their website. This way it has a wonderful collection of wallpapers and they are the property of the artists themselves. Obviously you are free to use them.

Source: pixelgirlpresents dot com

7. wallcoo dot com: A chinese website with all you need type of wallpapers. It has the finest collection of websites from around the world. You don’t even need to learn chinese to get impressed from the images and download them in any pixels you like. Great site give it a try.

Source: Wallcoo dot com

8. vladstudio dot com: Vladstudio is the project of Russian digital artist Vlad Gerasimov. This has a wonderful collection of arts and desktop graphics. Enjoy this site.

Source: Vlad Studio dot com

9. devianart dot com: Devian art is the largest collector of free wallpapers with unique images. People are free to post their images and you can also rate them. To post images and videos you have to be a member of devianart dot com.

Source: devianart dot com

10. National Geography dot com: National geography society is one of the richest sources of wallpapers in the internet. You can always believe those guys and use their photos. Genius and marvelous piece of illustrations. Check out photography dot nationalgeographic dot com:

Source: photography dot nationalgeographic dot com

The Google Icons — they are crazy

Tushar Neupaney — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:22:32 +0000

Google is undoubtebly the paramount of internet host. It is the wildest search engine, powerful email client, useful blog utility and lot more. For many google is the homepage from where they access the internet. And to their amusement google changes it’s icons frequently. It has new logo, new icon and new themes regularly.

Icons of Google

Google is changing itself and its small icons called favicons. It has long story behind selecting the currently used favicon. Some tried the blue one, some said red and some covered it with rounded rectangles. That way or else, it got a new icon set. The tried ones are shown below:

The other list:

And the olympic icon it is using:

Ads of Apple

Tushar Neupaney — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:55:23 +0000

Ads from Apple

When apple macintosh was just creeping up, it used to have some really adventerous advertisements. If Steve Jobs sees it now, he would really enjoy this ride. The 1984 ad campaign of Apple is a joy ride for many apple geeks. They love the glorious period and the classic advertisement style of apple.

Apple is used by the so called cool guys and is a dream computer to many including me. “If I have an apple, I won’t ask for anything”. There were some very famous and humurous ads of apple. Watchout for some of them.

Well the other guy used his mac like this. Not what Apple might have thought of.

A Mac Being used as a beer server!

And the old Mac Commercial giving details of what a mac has..

Apple in the Mag

Why a kid needs a Mac. Another Apple ad.

Yet another apple ad

The famous 1984 TV commercial:

The 1984 apple commercial Resuffeled fo iPod

The Final Slogan in 1984 Apple Ad

The plot:

The commercial opens with a dystopic, industrial setting in blue and gray tones, showing a line of individuals (of ambiguous gender) marching in unison. They are moving through a long tunnel monitored by a string of televisions. This is in sharp contrast to the full-color shots of the nameless heroine (Anya Major) who has appeared to rescue them. She looks more like an Olympic track and field athlete than a soldier, as she is carrying a large brass-headed hammer and is wearing an athletic “uniform” (bright orange athletic shorts, running shoes, a white tank top with a Picasso-style picture of Apple’s Macintosh computer, a white sweat band on her left wrist, and a red one on her right).

Big Brother (David Graham) speaking to his audience of drones.

As she is chased by four security guards (presumably agents of the Thought Police with black riot-police uniform, helmets with visors covering their faces, and armed with large night sticks) the heroine races towards a large screen with the image of a Big Brother-like figure (David Graham) on it. He is celebrating the anniversary of the “Information Purification Directives” (which he summarizes as an end to “contradictory thoughts”) and tells his audience that, “our ‘Unification of Thoughts’ is more powerful a weapon” than anything else he could offer them. The heroine, now close to the screen, hurls the hammer towards it, right at the moment Big Brother announces, “we shall prevail!” In a flurry of light and smoke, the screen is destroyed.

Watch this video from apple in Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8